Extradition

NEW DELHI: Portugal and Interpol have told India to be ready for the extradition of underworld don Abu Salem, who was arrested in Lisbon on Wednesday, CBI joint director Ashwini Kumar said here on Saturday. "The Portuguese authorities and Interpol told us we should be ready for extradition, so we have confirmed to them," Mr Kumar told a press conference here. He, however, said the question of deportation was also "always open. " Kumar said discussions were on with the Portuguese embassy in Delhi, the...

MUMBAI: Extradited gangster Abu Salem was today sentenced to life imprisonment by a special TADA court in the 1995 murder case of Mumbai-based builder Pradeep Jain . The court also handed out life imprisonment to Salem's driver Mehndi Hassan while another accused Virendra Jhamb's sentence was set off against the period of detention undergone by him in prison during the various stages of investigation in the case. 86-year-old Jhamb was in jail...

NEW DELHI: Seen as a major victory to India, a Portugal court has ordered the extradition of underworld don and one of the main accused in the 1993 Mumbai bomb blasts, Abu Salem, to the country. Official sources said the Portugal High Court ordered extradition of Salem to face trial in the serial blasts that rocked the Mumbai city in 1993, killing more than 250 people. Salem, who was arrested along with girlfriend and little known Bollywood actress Monica Bedi and others on September 21, '02...

NEW DELHI: India has urged member states of the Interpol to adopt uniform laws on speedy extradition of criminals, which could come as a deterrent in checking organised crime and drug trafficking. "The menace of drug trafficking can be checked by entering into extradition treaties and mutual legal agreements having provision for forfeiture of proceeds from drug trade," CBI director U S Mishra said addressing the 73rd General Assembly Session of Interpol at Cancun in Mexico yesterday.

MUMBAI: The lawyer of the extradited gangster Abu Salem today told the trial court here that the murder of builder Pradeep Jain in 1995 was only "incidental to the conspiracy" to extort. "Murder was only incidental to the conspiracy and it was not immediately planned and executed. He was killed only after Jain started dilly-dallying about the payment of extortion money," Salem's lawyer advocate Sudeep Passbola argued. The special TADA court...

MUMBAI: The prosecution today sought capital punishment for extradited gangster Abu Salem in the builder Pradeep Jain murder case while the defence contended that it would be a violation of the treaty with Portugal. The special TADA court yesterday convicted Salem, his driver Mehendi Hassan and builder Virendra Jhamb for the 1995 murder. "The accused (Salem) not only killed Jain but also enjoyed the act of killing him and this amounts to cruelty....

SRINAGAR: In prolonged discussions between British foreign secretary Jack Straw and deputy Prime Minister L K Advani, during the former's India visit in May, one of the main issues was that of Dr Ayub Thuker, a Kashmiri expatriate in London. The Centre believes that Thuker is one of the many persons funneling huge moneybags to Kashmiri separatists.' Delhi wants either his extradition or deportation. A home ministry team is in London offering "evidences" to their British counterparts about...

DUBAI: The UAE Cabinet has approved an extradition agreement that the Gulf nation had signed with India for facilitating the transfer of Indian convicts to spend the remaining jail term in their home country. The agreement, which was signed by the two countries in November last year, is expected to help around 1,200 Indian prisoners who have been languishing in UAE prisons. The Cabinet approved the extradition agreement yesterday. As per the...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday sought details from the government on the steps taken for extradition of Italian businessman Ottavio Quattrocchi, an accused in the Bofors pay-off case, and his detention in Argentina earlier this month. A bench headed by Justice C K Thakker issued notices to the Centre and CBI and sought their replies within a week. Additional Solicitor General Gopal Subrahmaniam, while accepting the notices, said that a special team of the...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi Court today issued notice to the CBI director seeking his response as to why underworld don Abu Salem was extradited instead of being deported here from Portugal in 2005 to face trial in criminal cases including the 1992 Mumbai blasts case. "Issue notice to the CBI Director for August 5 for apprising the court about extradition of Abu Salem," Additional Session Judge Ravinder Kaur said. The order came after Additional Solicitor...

Buenos Aires : India has filed the documents seeking extradition of Italian businessman, Ottavio Quattrocchi with the Argentine government. Indian ambassador to Aargentina Parmathesh Rath, after filing the papers with the foreign ministry of the Latin American country, said it was now for the Aargentine government to see whether the papers were in order to carry forward the process of extradition. The ambassador said there should be reciprocity between the two...

MUMBAI: A special TADA court here today convicted deported gangster Abu Salem and two other accused in the 1995 murder case of city-based builder Pradeep Jain . This is the first that Salem has been convicted in a case involving him in India after he was deported in 2005. "Abu Salem has been convicted under section 302 (murder) 120 B (conspiracy) of the IPC and other relevant sections of TADA," said Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam. Two other...

MUMBAI: A special TADA court here today reserved its judgement till Monday in the 1995 murder case of city-based builder Pradeep Jain in which deported gangster Abu Salem is the main accused. "The court is likely to pronounce its verdict on February 16," Special Public Prosecutor Ujjwal Nikam told PTI. Also, this will be the first judgement in a case involving Salem in India after he was deported in 2005, he said. According to police, on March...

WARSAW (POLAND): Filmmaker Roman Polanski has been questioned by a prosecutor in Poland concerning a US request for his extradition on 1977 sex charges, an official said Thursday. Boguslawa Marcinkowska, spokeswoman for the prosecutor's office in Krakow, southern Poland, said the prosecutor questioned the director late Wednesday and was writing a report for the court that will decide whether to extradite Polanski. She refused to divulge any details of the...

THE HAGUE (NETHERLANDS): The lawyer for a Russian accused by U.S. authorities of involvement in a huge computer hack that stole and sold at least 160 million credit and debit-card numbers called on a Dutch judge Tuesday to ban his extradition to the United States. The appeal hearing in The Hague District Court was the latest attempt by Vladimir Drinkman to avoid being sent to New Jersey, where he is one of four Russians and a Ukrainian charged in the sophisticated data...

ISLAMABAD: Pakistan army chief General Raheel Sharif today dashed to Afghanistan to seek extradition of Taliban leader Mullah Fazlluah , whose group claimed responsibility for a deadly attack on an army school in Peshawar left 141 people, mostly children, dead. General Raheel's emergency visit to Kabul came after Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif spoke to Afghan President Ashraf Ghani on the issue of militancy. "General Raheel Sharif is going to...

NEW DELHI: Abu Salem, an accused in the Bombay blast case, has filed a petition in the constitutional court of Portugal challenging their Supreme Court order to extradite him for facing trial in India. Sources said that Salem utilised the last legal option left with him around five days back by knocking at the doors of the constitutional court, which is above the Supreme Court. The CBI was anticipating this move since his girl friend Monica Bedi did the same to avoid being packed off...

NEW DELHI: A Delhi court has recommended to the Centre to extradite a fugitive criminal, who had fled from the US after being awarded 23 years in jail for murder there, considering that the convict had voluntarily consented that he be sent to the requesting state for serving the sentence. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Ajay Garg recommended extradition of Amit Muddamalle Livingston , saying the offence alleged against...

BHOPAL: Seeking extradition of Union Carbide secretary John McDonald , some organisations working for the survivors of the Bhopal Gas tragedy today urged the Centre to ensure that Dow Chemical does not make any investment in India until it accepts Union Carbide's liabilities in Bhopal. Chemical giant Dow had taken over the Union Carbide Corporation some years after the 1984 toxic gas leak from the latter's Bhopal factory killed thousands of...